How to transmit Presets from an older Ardour Installation

Installation & Configuration Linux
#1

I have an older Ardour installation on my 2nd Linux Mint partition.
Can i transmit anywhere the saved presets of some plugins e.g. the ACE Fluid Synth?

I know the path for presets: /home/stefan/.config/ardour8/presets
But if i use the old file i’ll lose the new settings.

Any export import feature in Ardour for presets?

#2

Should be a directory, not a file. So just copy the contents.

#3

Ah, my fault. In my new i had only saved one preset so i have only one file here. At the old system i have more. thanks!.

#4

LV2 and VST3 plugin presets are not Ardour specific, and stored in folder available to other plugin hosts. On GNU/Linux the following applies:

  • LV2 presets are saved in the user-writable part of the LV2 path, usually $HOME/.lv2/ [1]
  • VST3 presets saved in $HOME/.vst3/presets/ [2]
  • LV1 (LADSPA) presets, if any, are in $HOME/.ladspa/rdf/

Only VST2 presets are saved in Ardour’s config/presets/ folder. This is because there is no official VST2 SDK that ardour was able to use, and a custom Ardour specific format was needed.

[1] Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
[2] Preset Locations - VST 3 Developer Portal

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